Rope And Ridge. Whiteout Sins, #32

"Love, like altitude, thins the blood. At a certain height, you stop caring whether you fall."Forensic accountant Freya Sterling is a woman of facts and ledgers, but no spreadsheet can fix the disappearance of her brother on the deadliest peak in Alaska. Desperate for closure after two years of unanswered questions, she pays an exorbitant sum to the only guide willing to venture back onto the treacherous Wraith Glacier to recover his body.
Kaelen "Hawk" Thorne is a man stripped down to pure survival. Scarred, arrogant, and mercilessly competent, he rules the ice with absolute authority. What Freya doesn't know is that Hawk isn't just a mercenary guide. He is "The Butcher"-the pariah who made the fateful decision to cut her brother's rope to save the rest of his climbing team. When a catastrophic whiteout blizzard traps them in a tiny, suspended portaledge thousands of feet above the void, the freezing isolation strips away their secrets.
Surrounded by a deadly storm and the terrifying truth of who Hawk really is, Freya realizes she is trapped with a killer. But Hawk has his own agenda for returning to the Devil's Spine, and his intense, obsessive need to protect Freya defies every boundary of professionalism. As the ice groans and enemies close in, they are bound together by a rope of grief, survival, and a dark, devastating attraction.
In a world where a single mistake means a two-thousand-foot drop, falling for the man who destroyed her family might be the deadliest plunge of all.